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    <a href="">Sapna Bedi</a> | <a href="">Javier Diaz</a> | <a href="http://foley-fisher.com">Zoltan Foley-Fisher</a> | <a href="">Noreen Kamal</a> | <a href="">Vincent Tsao</a>
    
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<p><img class="left_float" src="label.png" alt="Alt"/>Health Canada has stated that healthy eating is a key component of personal health management, and can lead to better management of chronic diseases [1]. Nutritional labels support healthy eating by providing nutrition facts about the food product such as calorie content and recommended daily values of nutrients.</p>

<p>However, the trouble with nutritional labels is that many people find them hard to read and understand. People struggle to calculate changes to nutritional information on the labels according to serving sizes adjustments that are relevant to their needs [2]. People often adjust the serving sizes when comparing products, since serving sizes are not consistent.</p>

<p><img class="left_float" src="eva.png" alt="Alt"/><em>Healthy Shelf</em> is a system of interactive labels for display on kiosks next to supermarket shelves. We found that people liked using the interactive labels to adjust serving sizes of nutritional information. We also found that these labels need to be at least as useful and convenient as reading the labels on the food packets. The next step for researchers is to define the vocabulary of interface elements for multi-platform labels, to explore techniques for interactive label association and release the wealth of online content for real world items.</p>
    
    <p><a href="http://pspi.magic.ubc.ca:8080/HealthyShelf/">Try it out!</a></p>



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    <li>Primary Health Care Transition Fund. Chronic Disease Prevention and Management. 2007. Retrieved October 4, 2009, from http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/pubs/prim/2006-synth-chronic-chroniques/index-eng.php</li>
    <li>Rothman, R.L., Housam, R., Weiss, H., Davis, D., Gregory, R., Gebretsadik, T., Shintani, A., and Elasy, T.A. Patient Understanding of Food Labels: The Role of Literacy and Numeracy. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 31(5), 2006, 391-8.</li>
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<p><em>Healthy Shelf</em> is available from Google Code at <a href="http://code.google.com/p/accessible-nutritional-labels/">http://code.google.com/p/accessible-nutritional-labels/</a></p>
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    <h3>Last updated: December 2009</h3>
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